> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:52:29 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #485
>
> Drugnews-Digest Tuesday, April 17 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 485
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n485/
>
> 001 Canada: Health Canada Mark-Up on Government
> Certified Reefer
> Source: Truro Daily News (CN NS)
> 002 Canada: High Markup On Feds' Medicinal Pot
> Source: Daily News, The (CN NS)
> 003 Canada: Gov't Marijuana Marked Up 1,500 Per Cent
> Source: Medicine Hat News (CN AB)
> 004 Canada: Markup Price Charged For Medical
> Marijuana
> Source: Western Star, The (CN NF)
> 005 Canada: Fed Gov't's Pot Sky-High in Price
> Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
> 006 US NY: Revolving Door for Addicts Adds to
> Medicaid Cost
> Source: New York Times (NY)
> 007 US: Niacin to Pass a Drug Test Can Have
> Dangerous Results
> Source: New York Times (NY)
> 008 Indonesia: LTE: Drugs In Schools
> Source: Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
> 009 CN BC: Editorial: Drugs And Death Aren't Part Of
> The Jo
> Source: Williams Lake Tribune, The (CN BC)
> 010 CN BC: Recovery Home Eyes A New Neighbourhood
> Source: Richmond Review, The (CN BC)
> 011 New Zealand: Revealed - Prisoners' Tricks For
> Smuggling
> Source: New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 Canada: Health Canada Mark-Up on
> Government Certified Reefer
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:29 -0700
> Size: 52 lines 2405 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a01.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Truro Daily News (CN NS)
> Page: 11
> Copyright: 2007 The Daily News
> Contact: mturner@...
> Website: http://www.trurodaily.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1159
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Marijuana
> - Medicinal - Canada)
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Prairie+Plant+Systems
>
> HEALTH CANADA MARK-UP ON GOVERNMENT CERTIFIED REEFER
> 1,500 PER CENT: DOCUMENTS
>
> Ottawa - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> The company currently has a $10.3-million contract
> with Health Canada,
> which expires at the end of September, to grow
> standardized medical
> marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon,
> Man.
>
> [continues: 23 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 Canada: High Markup On Feds' Medicinal Pot
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:22 -0700
> Size: 67 lines 2758 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Daily News, The (CN NS)
> Page: 7
> Copyright: 2007 The Daily News
> Contact: letterstoeditor@...
> Website: http://www.hfxnews.ca/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/179
> Author: Dean Beeby, CP
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Prairie+Plant+Systems
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Marijuana
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> HIGH MARKUP ON FEDS' MEDICINAL POT
>
> And It's Not Even Good Stuff, Prospect Bay Man Says
>
> The federal government charges patients 15 times
> more for certified
> medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in
> bulk from its
> official supplier, newly released documents show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> [continues: 38 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 Canada: Gov't Marijuana Marked Up 1,500
> Per Cent
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:19 -0700
> Size: 46 lines 2067 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Medicine Hat News (CN AB)
> Copyright: 2007 Alberta Newspaper Group, Inc.
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.medicinehatnews.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1833
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Prairie+Plant+Systems
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Marijuana
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> GOV'T MARIJUANA MARKED UP 1,500 PER CENT
>
> OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government charges
> patients 15 times more
> for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy
> the weed in bulk
> from its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> The company currently has a $10.3-million contract
> with Health Canada,
> which expires at the end of September, to grow
> standardized medical
> marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon,
> Man.
>
> [continues: 17 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 Canada: Markup Price Charged For Medical
> Marijuana
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:24 -0700
> Size: 57 lines 2387 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a04.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Western Star, The (CN NF)
> Page: 5
> Copyright: 2007 The Western Star
> Contact: rsweetapple@...
> Website: http://www.thewesternstar.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2523
> Author: Dean Beeby, CP
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Prairie+Plant+Systems
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Marijuana
> - Medicinal - Canada)
>
> MARKUP PRICE CHARGED FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
>
> OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> [continues: 30 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 Canada: Fed Gov't's Pot Sky-High in Price
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:27 -0700
> Size: 71 lines 2712 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
> Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership.
> Contact: mailbag@...
> Website: http://www.edmontonsun.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
> Author: Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Marijuana
> - Medicinal - Canada)
> Bookmark:
> http://www.mapinc.org/topics/Prairie+Plant+Systems
>
> FED GOV'T'S POT SKY-HIGH IN PRICE
>
> OTTAWA -- The federal government charges patients 15
> times more for
> certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the
> weed in bulk from
> its official supplier, newly released documents
> show.
>
> Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high
> a markup to some
> of the country's sickest citizens, who have little
> income and are
> often cut off from their medical marijuana supply
> when they can't pay
> their government dope bills.
>
> $328.75 Per Kilo
>
> Records obtained under the Access to Information Act
> show that Health
> Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk
> medical marijuana
> produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
>
> [continues: 43 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 US NY: Revolving Door for Addicts Adds to
> Medicaid Cost
> From: Please Write a LTE
> www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:18:00 -0700
> Size: 192 lines 9659 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a06.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: New York Times (NY)
> Page: Front Page
> Copyright: 2007 The New York Times Company
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.nytimes.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
> Author: Richard Perez-Pena
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm
> (Treatment)
>
> REVOLVING DOOR FOR ADDICTS ADDS TO MEDICAID COST
>
> With grim humor, some doctors in New York call them
> "frequent fliers"
> - -- addicts who check into hospital detoxification
> units so often that
> dozens of them spend more than 100 nights a year in
> those wards.
>
> Through its Medicaid program, New York spends far
> more than other
> states on drug and alcohol treatment, including more
> than $300
> million a year paid to hospitals for more than
> 30,000 detox patients.
> One reason for the high cost is that $50 million is
> spent just on the
> 500 most expensive patients, at a cost of about
> $100,000 a person.
> These patients check in and out of detox wards, on
> average, more than
> a dozen times a year -- a practice that experts say
> would not be
> tolerated in most states.
>
> In the state's 2004 fiscal year, one patient was
> admitted to such
> units 26 times at 17 different hospitals around New
> York City,
> spending a total of 204 nights, Medicaid records
> show.
>
> [continues: 163 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 US: Niacin to Pass a Drug Test Can Have
> Dangerous Results
> From: Why Donate to DrugSense?
> http://drugsense.org/why_donate.htm
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:21:40 -0700
> Size: 49 lines 1798 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: New York Times (NY)
> Copyright: 2007 The New York Times Company
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.nytimes.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
> Author: Eric Nagourney
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug
> Testing)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Marijuana)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)
>
> Hazards:
>
> NIACIN TO PASS A DRUG TEST CAN HAVE DANGEROUS
> RESULTS
>
> Heard the one about how taking a lot of vitamin B3
> can help you pass a
> drug test, even if you have been using marijuana or
> cocaine?
>
> It doesn't. But it might send you to the emergency
> room.
>
> The Annals of Emergency Medicine reports in its
> online edition on
> several cases in which patients arrived at a
> hospital suffering ill
> effects from the vitamin, also known as niacin. The
> lead author is Dr.
> Manoj K. Mittal of the Children's Hospital of
> Pennsylvania.
>
> [continues: 22 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 Indonesia: LTE: Drugs In Schools
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:58:20 -0700
> Size: 50 lines 2125 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2007
> Source: Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
> Copyright: The Jakarta Post
> Contact: editorial@...
> Website: http://www.thejakartapost.com
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/645
> Author: Gene Netto
>
> DRUGS IN SCHOOLS
>
> A total of 81,702 students used illegal drugs in
> 2006 (The Jakarta
> Post, April 11). The National Narcotics Agency
> (BNN) reports that
> 8,449 of those drug users were elementary school
> students, and those
> are the ones we know about. With the assumption
> that those who were
> detected represent the tip of the iceberg, just how
> many children in
> this country are taking illegal drugs?
>
> First, where did they get the money from? I'm
> assuming that illegal
> drugs are not that cheap. Second, where did they
> get the drugs from?
> Are drug dealers standing outside schools beside
> the snack vendors?
> ("Meatballs, ice cream, ecstasy!") Are other kids
> selling the drugs
> inside the schools? How? Considering the small size
> of most schools
> and the large number of students, it's not as
> though there are many
> private places for child drug dealers to hide.
>
> Third, when and where are these children using
> drugs? At home, a
> friend's home, at school or on the street? None of
> these locations
> seems like an optimal location for using drugs
> without being detected.
>
> [continues: 20 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 009 CN BC: Editorial: Drugs And Death Aren't
> Part Of The Jo
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:01:00 -0700
> Size: 75 lines 2966 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a09
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a09.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Williams Lake Tribune, The (CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 Williams Lake Tribune
> Contact: newsroom@...
> Website: http://www.wltribune.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1226
>
> DRUGS AND DEATH AREN'T PART OF THE JOB
>
> Talk about ridiculous.
>
> The Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT) has
> ruled that the
> families of two Terrace men killed by a drugged
> truck driver near
> Williams Lake in August 2004 are not entitled to
> compensation from
> ICBC or WorkSafe BC.
>
> Why? The driver was so stoned, he couldn't form an
> intent to do
> anything other than his job.
>
> "We have found that the defendant's action or
> conduct that allegedly
> caused a breach of duty arose out of and in the
> course of his
> employment," the panel ruled.
>
> In other words, it's OK to load up on amphetamines
> and cocaine and get
> behind the wheel of a semi.
>
> [continues: 48 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 010 CN BC: Recovery Home Eyes A New
> Neighbourhood
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:47:47 -0700
> Size: 93 lines 3838 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a10
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a10.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Richmond Review, The (CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 Richmond Public Library
> Contact: news@...
> Website: http://www.richmondreview.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/704
> Author: Matthew Hoekstra
>
> RECOVERY HOME EYES A NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD
>
> A society that helps people overcome addictions to
> alcohol and drugs
> wants to build three recovery houses in a
> single-family neighbourhood
> on Ash Street.
>
> Turning Point Recovery Society is proposing one
> 20-bed,
> 11,000-square-foot house behind two side-by-side
> 3,500-square-foot
> houses, each housing 10 addicts.
>
> A single boarded-up home stands on the property, at
> 8180 Ash St.,
> where the project is proposed. Although it once
> served as a group home
> for youth, Turning Point needs to apply to rezone
> the
> 25,000-square-foot site because of the project's
> size.
>
> The property is surrounded by single-family homes
> and is a block away
> from Howard DeBeck Elementary and DeBeck House, the
> future home of
> Richmond Family Place.
>
> [continues: 65 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 011 New Zealand: Revealed - Prisoners' Tricks
> For Smuggling
> From: http://www.norml.org.nz
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:51:37 -0700
> Size: 82 lines 3379 bytes
> File: v07.n485.a11
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n485.a11.html
>
> Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2007
> Source: New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
> Copyright: 2007 New Zealand Herald
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/300
> Author: Beck Vass
> Contact: letters@...
>
> REVEALED - PRISONERS' TRICKS FOR SMUGGLING
>
> A kiss on the lips, tennis balls and even a dead
> bird are among the
> crafty methods criminals are using to smuggle drugs
> and cellphone
> equipment into prisons, Department of Corrections
> staff have revealed.
>
> Eight weeks into an inquiry into allegations that
> jail staff have been
> smuggling contraband for prisoners, department chief
> executive Barry
> Matthews has admitted 150 cellphones have been found
> at Rimutaka
> Prison in the past year.
>
> In its efforts to combat the problem, the department
> has spent
> thousands of dollars on equipment to detect
> cellphones and is even
> considering network-disabling technology, although
> this would mean
> prison staff would be unable to use cellphones while
> working.
>
> Mr Matthews said some people might view the 150
> cellphone seizures as
> negative, but it showed the department was making
> inroads into the
> problem.
>
> [continues: 52 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
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